The Third Ingredient

Story Line

Hetty Pepper (a discharged department store worker) and Cecilie (a starving miniature-painter) try to make a beef and potato stew in a low-rent New York apartment building. While they have the meat and the potatoes, they desperately need an onion to tie the meal together—which serves as a metaphor for the human connection and grace needed to complete their lives.

“"If they only had an onion their heaven would be complete."”

Top Cast

Mildred Manning

Hetty

Alice Mann

Cecille

J. Frank Glendon

Man